Improved flour and meal-chest



ILPETERS, PHOTGLITMOGRAPMEK WASHINGION, D. Q.

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Leiters Patent No. 101,438., dated April 5, 1870.

IMPROVED PLO'UR .AND MEAL-CHEST.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. DAsuiEm., of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Flour and Meal-Chest; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings formings part of this specilication.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient receptacle for meal, onr, and other articles for domestic use, with facilities for sifting and preparing the fioul' and meal for use; and

It consists in a chest partitioned o' into compartments provided with a sieve and a receiving-drawer, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure lis a vertical cross-section on the line xx of Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of lig. 1 on the line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the chest, which is of rectangnlarform, elevated on legs or otherwise, and provided with ahinged cover or lid, B. A

C is a compartment for flour; and

Y D is a compartment for meal, both with lnclined bottoms sol that their contents may be'readily dis charged throueh the apertures E onto the sieve F.

This sieve rests on cleats or Waysand is operated' or vibrated back and forth horizontally by means of the lever G, as seen in g. 1.

H is a drawer directly beneath the sieve for receivingthe flour or meal. Y

I is a bread-tray directly beneath the cover.

closed by the slides J J.

The apertures E E are Below the bread-tray I are three (more or less) small compartments, (seen in dotted lines in fig. 2,) lfor holding spices and other similar articles.

To work the sieve, the cover B is raised and the bread-tray I is taken out. This gives access to and allowsroom to work the lever.

This chest is a most convenient article for the household, and its many advantages Will be readily underand described.

M. DASHIELL.

llritnesses:

FRANCIS H. DAsnIELL, HENRY O. REDMON. 

